Wells Rugby Club

Return to Website User's Guide
Go to Bottom of Page

This page contains information for Registered Users of the Wells RFC website who have been granted the ability to add or modify content upon the website.

There is information on how to add content to the website, how to maintain you own profile, as well as guidelines on what should not be added to the website. Please read the whole page carefully.

You can also use the links below to jump straight to the relevant section:

• User Profiles
• Adding Content
• Changing Content
• Using the Editor
• Adding Images
• Advice for Adding Images
• Adding Links
• Email Addresses
• Copying Text from MS Word or other word processors

User Profiles

When you first registered you provided certain details about yourself, including a name, e-mail address and password. Your profile allows you to add certain information such as contact details. Editing you profile will allow you to set or change these details, should you change phone number or email address.

You can also check a box to allow other registered users contact you by email. This will not pass them your email address, but provides a contact form and allows then to use it to send the email.

You can access your User Profile by selecting the My account link in the navigation menu at the left of your page.

Adding Content

To add content select the Create Content link from the navigation menu. You will be presented with a number of Content Types from which to choose, such as Match Report or Forum Topic. There is an explanation of the purpose for each type of content.

Select the appropriate content type and you will be offered a page which allows you to enter information appropriate to that content type.

You may then preview the content to see what it looks like when displayed, and finally save the content. For some users the content is published imUser Profilesmediately. When it is published it becomes visible to other users. However, in rare cases, some users may have some content forwarded to the administrator for verification before it is published.

Changing Content

You can usually modify content that you have previously added to the website, and may also be able to delete it. To change content, you first need to retrieve the content. There are two methods for retrieving content that you cannot find.

1. Access your user profile using the My Account link, then select the Track link at the top of the page. Any content created by you will be listed. Select the required content and then click the Edit link at the top of the displayed content.

2. Under the Home page on the navigation is a link to Recent Posts. Click this to be presented a list of content and continue as in option 1.

Using the Editor

Some content types provide for the submission of large text fields. Most of these provide a complex interface, similar to a word processor for editing the required content. There are buttons across the top to enable formatting features, to enable images to be added to the content or to create links to pages on the website or to external websites.

I would like to explain some of the buttons which may be unfamiliar. Further explanations for some features are below, but I will describe the feature in this list. I will refer to the buttons by the name which appears if you float the mouse icon above the button:

• Insert/Edit Image (yellow button with a picture of mountains and a sun)
  Use this button to upload and add images and to position them within your text.

• Paste as Plain Text (Clipboard with a “T” below)
  Use this button to remove problem formatting and paste text from other applications. There is a similar button to paste content from MS Word.

• Insert/Edit Link (picture of a blue globe with a link beneath)
  Use this to add a website link.

• Teaser (with word Teaser in button)
  Use this to set the length of the teaser which is the text that appears on abbreviated presentations of the content.

Adding Images

1. To add an image, first position the cursor where you want the image to appear, then click the Insert/Edit Image button. A small window will open.

2. Click the Browse Server button in the small window. A further window will open displaying images that are already uploaded to the website.

3. Either scroll through and select the desired image, or use the Quick Upload option at the top of this window to upload an image from your computer. To use Quick Upload click the Browse button. You will be presented with a navigation menu showing the files on your computer. Choose the appropriate image and then upload it.
   
   Large image files cannot be uploaded as they take up too much space on the website and take to long to download when a user selects the page. Normally 20k to 40k is a good size for an image file on a website. Use photo editing software to reduce the size of images (see below).

4. Once you have uploaded an image or selected an image from the gallery, you need to select the image that you want to display. Usually you will be offered Original, Thumbnail or Preview. These are just different sized files and images. Normally the Preview is ideal.

5. Now you are represent with the original small window showing a sample of the inserted image. Use the fields on his window to set the size and to add space around the image. You can also set the alignment of the image relative to the text. You may wish to play with these features to get used to what they do.

6. If you click the Advanced tab at the top of this small window, you can use the Advisory Title field to provide text that will appear if the mouse is later floated over the image.

7. Click OK, and the image is inserted into the page. Use Preview to see how it will look on the published page. You can also select the image and click the Insert/Edit Image if you want to change any of the settings or change the image.

8. Finally, if you uploaded the image rather than select it from the gallery, consider finding the Image content and selecting a photo gallery where this image will be presented.

   Advice for adding photos

1. Do not upload photos with a filesize > 70KB. View the file properties before uploading to check the filesize. Large photos take longer to download, making the user experience painful, and also use up valuable space on the website.
2. Digital cameras commonly create photos that are 1MB or even larger. However screen resolutions usually are happy with photos of 40KB to 70KB.
3. Use imaging or photo software to reduce the size. File size can be reduced by cropping the image and by saving it at a lower resolution. Consult the manuals of your photo software for information on how to do this. Oh, and be careful not to overwrite your original photos.
4. If you are unsure how to proceed, contact the webmaster for help.
5. Do not identify junior players by including names with photos.
6. Do use small photos to enhance your web pages or notices.

Adding Links

1. To turn text into a link to some website or to a page on this website, you use the Insert/Edit Link button.

2. First identify the page which is the target of the link. Copy the address from the top of the webpage, as you will need this soon.

3. Type the text that will serve as the link, then select the text. For example if you want to put a link here, select the word “here”. Then click the Insert/Edit Link button.

4. In the dialogue that opens paste the address copied in step 2 into the URL field.
   
   If the address is from this website, remove the leading part of the address so that only the part after the “http://wellsrfc.co.uk/” remains. Then set the Protocol field to Other.
   
   If the address is for a page on another website, then enter the full address in the URL, and leave the Protocol as HTTP.
   
   Do not use this method for adding email addresses as this can be used by Spammers to find addresses to Spam.

5. Click OK and the link is created. You will not be able to test it from the edit field. Rather press Preview and test it there. Do not forget to save the page.

Email Addresses

• Do not put email addresses anywhere on the website. This invites spam, as malicious software can crawl the internet looking for e-mail addresses which can then be used by spam generators.

• If you want to publish your own email address, and you are a registered user, click the My Account link in the navigation menu on the left, and edit your user profile. At the bottom you will find a checkbox that will enable registered users to contact you by e-mail.

• You can also send an e-mail to certain users using the Contact Us page. If you need an address added to this page contact the Webmaster. Provided you are linked in, you can contact him by using this link.

Copying Text from MS Word or other Editors

1. You may use other editors to compile your textual content, and then copy the content into the page you are creating.

2. After creating the content, select and copy the required text, then click the Insert from Word button, or Insert from Text button, and insert the text into the small window provided.

3. It is preferable to format the text once inserted into the content page, although simple formatting can be done in MS Word. Complex formatting may be lost as text is copied to the content page.

4. Copy and Paste direct into the content page is also possible but formatting may be lost.

Return to Top of Page